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Beat The Odds Blackjack: Playing Percentages Without Counting

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Useful book overall. The title sounded very appealing as I really want to avoid counting cards. I used the techniques a couple of times and found it to be succesful overall

bravo Mr.C for your tremendous chapters 3 and 17! ironically just before I bought this book my wife and I had a mild debate about these 21st century dealers that now SEEM to be tougher than ever! I complained "I can handle losing for a while but some times I see dealers having ten cards up 7 out of ten times backed by another face card for 5 or six hands more! And this goes on for hours! Cindy replyed "the cards have to be magnitized in some way!" AT First I thought cindy had lost "some of her cards!" however when I read your chapter on the advent of plastic cards into the game which create a strong degree of static electricity {which is magnetisim} I had to offer her an apology! Now Im more careful than ever about watching dealers up cards than ever and players stiffs! A player or dealer is supposed to get a 20 1 out of 7 hands!! Hmmmmm! nough said and thanks for opening up the eyes of a 20 yr.blackjack veteran! 2+2 now equals 4. although I still dont move if I lose 4 in a row (sorry mr. Thomason author of 21st century blackjack and a good friend of mine} I watch the dealers up cards and the distribution to the players VERY CAREFULLY! If I see that garbage goin on for one or 2 shoes I move pronto! NOW- to the serious stuff! I think youve done a tremendous job of calculating all these percentages and your book will forever remain with me for REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY! Ive played at home (thank God) using your basic revised for "percentage expectaions" Ive played over 30 shoes (6 decks real cards and chips) and ive not one a shoe yet!! Hmmmm! O.K. readers here a just a few moves printed in black and white which you will replace "the outdated standard basic strategy" 1st of all you said to reply on your gut feelings on certain plays! then you said dont assume the dealers 10 in the hole because it will bey there just 31% of the time! OK I buy that 31% percent but I still fear and respect an up card 0f 10! then youre telling us (and apologising at the same) saying that you dont treat the ace with as much fear as most people do! and then in black and white you tell us to stand on all 12-16 breaking hands against the ace! come on now! even without the blackjack the dealer is hitting to TWO hands simutaneously! {one and eleven) and will break only about 15% of the time! Yeah! lets talk percentages! then you tell us if our intuition or guts feel it too split tens and keep splitting them (hands that win 93-95% of the time! and then you told us that even if you pull an ace for 21 to double down on a hand that wins or pushes 100% of the time. ENOUGH SAID! Readers im asking all of you a favor! try this strategy as I have with cards and chips (and for heavens sake at home) keep track of the # of hands you win and lose! ill let you take it from there! then try it with the "outdated old-fashioned stratgey" OK? then please review the book! remember also this strategy robs you of tons of doubles and splits! (the way we make our money) well ENOUGH SAID! If youre making a living at 21 playing this way.I wish you continued success! I remain Dr.Robert P. Balaban D.C.-international chess player-international concert pianist and amateur Blackjack player" No hard feelings I hope but ive got to be honest!